I Want to write my first eBook

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I want to write my first ebook and want to give that away for free when people buy my product. My question is how do I distribute? Should I send them a link to the pdf to download? If yes, how do I make sure that link is only used by somebody who bought it and is not all over the internet.

How do you lock your ebooks?
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    • OK, maybe I just don't know enough about PDFs. How do you create an EXE out of it? and how does that prevent them to email it to each other or putting on some hacker's website?

      Good thing in my case is that my product is a software, so people have to download a .msi anyway, and I can just include this PDF in that installation package, but I am still lost as to how to protect it.
  • I personally do not like exe files. I would prefer PDF but they are a little bit more difficult to protect.

    There are ways to protect the download link but I don't worry about that too much.

    If I lose 10% of my business due to theft I am not going to spend all my time worrying about it. I'll make a lot more money by looking for ways to scale and grow the other 90%.
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    • My fear is not the email around of that pdf. My fear is that pdf will show up in lot of downloadable sites. But I think what you are saying makes sense.
  • How about delivering the content using a mechanism other than an ebook?

    For instance, you could set up a (free) membership site on a secured Wordpress blog and drip feed the content there over a period of days. People would have access to the same information, but this would require much more effort on their part to recirculate.

    The idea for them of being a member also gives the content a much higher perceived value.
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    I Want to write my first eBook

    I want to write my first ebook and want to give that away for free when people buy my product. My question is how do I distribute? Should I send them a link to the pdf to download? If yes, how do I make sure that link is only used by somebody who bought it and is not all over the internet. How do you lock your ebooks?